User:Albany NY

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Welcome to Albany NY's user page. I have been a member of Wikipedia since July 2006. Although my main focus is on improving articles relating to New York's Capital District, I often edit articles in numerous areas. Common tasks of mine include adding infoboxes, geolinks, and references to articles, wikifying dead-end pages, uploading photographs, and formatting bold text, italics, and capitalization. In May 2007, I reached 500 edits in the main namespace.

• List of Albany NY's contributions to Wikipedia
• Albany NY's edit count and statistics

Contents 1 Significant contributions 2 Photographs 3 You can help! 3.1 See also 4 Wikipedia resources 4.1 Wikipedia 4.2 Other 5 Tip of the day 6 Disclaimer 7 Userboxes

[edit] Significant contributions

I have made significant contributions to the following pages.
Articles that I created are in bold.

• The Alan Colmes Show
• Albany City Hall
• Albany City School District
• Albany High School
• Albany Institute of History & Art
• Alfred E. Smith Building
• "The Carnival"
• Dunn Memorial Bridge
• Empire State Aerosciences Museum
• Encyclopedia Brunoniana
• Erastus Corning Tower
• Gerald Jennings
• Legislative Gazette
• Menands Bridge
• The Media Project
• New York State Executive Mansion
• New York State Capitol
• Palace Theatre
• Schenectady Museum
• Times Union

[edit] Photographs

I have taken the following pictures and uploaded them to Wikipedia. They were shot with a Canon PowerShot S50 digital camera. Some images were edited with Adobe Photoshop. I have released them under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License.

The Egg, a performing arts center located in the Empire State Plaza, is an Albany landmark. The Erastus Corning Tower is visible on the right.	The Cultural Education Center is also located in the Empire State Plaza. The ten story building houses the New York State Museum, Library, and Archives.	The Home Savings Bank Building is a 1927 office tower in downtown Albany. It is the city's tenth tallest structure.	The New York State Court of Appeals in Albany is the state's highest judicial body.
The Times Union Center is a major sports and entertainment venue in downtown Albany. When this photo was taken in 2006, it was still known as the Pepsi Arena.	The Times Union Center's semi-enclosed atrium	A tour boat passes though the Livingston Avenue Bridge, a railroad swing bridge over the Hudson River.	The New York State Education Building is an imposing Neoclassical structure across the street from the Capitol. It formerly housed the New York State Museum.
One Commerce Plaza is Albany's eleventh tallest building. Completed in 1971, it has 20 floors and is 270 feet tall.	The Albany Institute of History & Art is a museum in Albany. Founded in 1791, it is among America's oldest museums.	A rear view of Albany High School, the Albany City School District's flagship institution.	The SEFCU Arena is a 4,600-seat venue located on the campus of the University at Albany.
Brown University's 14-story Science Library, located in Providence, Rhode Island	The Maine State House in Augusta. Designed by Charles Bulfinch, it was completed in 1832.	The Blaine House is the official residence of the Governor of Maine. Built in 1833, it is located across the street from the State House.	Newport, Rhode Island's City Hall.

[edit] You can help!

To contribute to articles related to the Albany area, see:

• Category:Capital District, New York
• Category:Albany County, New York
• Category:Albany, New York

[edit] See also

• Wikimapia: A website where users can add place descriptions to Google Maps (this external link leads to the map of Albany). For more information, see Wikimapia.

[edit] Wikipedia resources

These documents and tools are useful for contributors to Wikipedia:

[edit] Wikipedia

• Manual of Style: Every contributor should read and be familiar with this document. Unfortunately, many articles do not comply with its guidelines, especially those dealing with section headings, bold text, and italics.
• Picture Tutorial: A useful reference for dealing with images in articles.
• Glossary: A directory of common terms used in Wikipedia.
• Infobox templates: Infoboxes make articles appear much more professional and visually appealing. They should be added to any page where they are applicable.
• Graphics Lab: A place where Wikipedians work to improve images in the encyclopedia.
• Featured Picture Candidates: These are some of Wikipedia's best photographs.

[edit] Other

• Wikipedia Page History Statistics
• Interiot's Online Edit Counter: Use this tool to find the edit count and statistics of a Wikipedia editor.
• Mathbot's Tool: Use this to find the edit summary usage of an editor.
• Firefox 2: The latest version of the Mozilla Firefox web browser that includes a spell checking feature for online forms. This allows editors to easily find spelling errors while editing.

[edit] Tip of the day

Inserting a picture in an article The syntax used for displaying an image is: [[Image:{name}|{type}|{location}|{size}|{caption}]] Only [[Image:{name}]] is required. The other details are optional and can be placed in any order. They are: Type  'thumb' / 'thumbnail' or 'frame'. This causes image to be displayed with specific formatting. "thumb" is normally preferred. Location  'right', 'left', 'center' or 'none'. Determines placement of the image on the page. "Left" or "right" is the norm, but large panoramas or timelines can be displayed in the center. Size  {width}px or {width}x{height}px (e.g. 50x40px, would limit width to 50 and height to 40). Normally only one variable is used. Use common sense when determining the sizes; you can use the "Show preview" button if you need to. Caption  Any element which cannot be identified as one of the above is automatically treated as caption text. It is traditional to put this last. The caption should identify what the image is, and ideally be a complete sentence that adds to the article by pointing out something a casual reader wouldn't have noticed otherwise, or add information the pertains to the image. If you have a picture that isn't already in Wikipedia's image collection that you want to include in an article, you will need to upload it first. Read more (includes examples): Wikipedia:Extended image syntax Prior tip - Next tip Become a Wikipedia tipster

[edit] Disclaimer

This is a Wikipedia user page. If you were looking for the City of Albany, New York, you want this article: Albany, New York. This is not an encyclopedia article. If you find this page on any site other than Wikipedia, you are viewing a mirror site. Be aware that the page may be outdated and that the user this page belongs to may have no personal affiliation with any site other than Wikipedia itself. The original page is located at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Albany_NY.

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